Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? write by James D. G. Dunn. This book was released on 2010-07-15. Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To answer the title question effectively requires more than the citing of a few texts; we must first acknowledge that the way to the answer is more difficult than it appears and recognize that the answer may be less straightforward than many would like. The author raises some fascinating yet vexing questions: What is worship? Is the fact that worship is offered to God (or a god) what defines him (or her) as "G/god?" What does the act of worship actually involve? The conviction that God exalted Jesus to his right hand obviously is central to Christian recognition of the divine status of Jesus. But what did that mean for the first Christians as they sought to reconcile God's status and that of the human Jesus? Perhaps the worship of Jesus was not an alternative to worship of God but another way of worshiping God. The questions are challenging but readers are ably guided by James Dunn, one of the world's top New Testament scholars.
Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?
Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? write by James D. G. Dunn. This book was released on 2011-02-15. Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christians today accept that Jesus is God and worship him as part of the Trinity. But what did the New Testament writers say about worshipping Jesus? Did they portray him as God, someone whom we should worship? Or did they see him as a great prophet like Moses or Elijah? Here, James Dunn introduces readers to the key New Testament passages that must be examined when trying to understand this important topic. He argues that we find a clear sense that Jesus enables worship, that Jesus is in a profound way the place and means of worship. Equally, for the first Christians Jesus was seen to be not only the one by whom believers come to God, but also the one by whom God has come to believers.
Honoring the Son
Honoring the Son - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Honoring the Son write by L. W. Hurtado. This book was released on 2018-06-27. Honoring the Son available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before the New Testament or the creeds of the church were written—the devotional practices of the earliest Christians indicate that they worshipped Jesus alongside the Father. Larry W. Hurtado has been one of the leading scholars on early Christology for decades. In Honoring the Son: Jesus in Earliest Christian Devotional Practice, Hurtado helps readers understand early Christology by examining not just what early Christians believed or wrote about Jesus, but what their devotional practices tell us about the place of Jesus in early Christian worship. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of early Christian origins and scholarship on New Testament Christology, Hurtado examines the distinctiveness of early Christian worship by comparing it to both Jewish worship patterns and worship practices within the broader Roman--era religious environment. He argues that the inclusion of the risen Jesus alongside the Father in early Christian devotional practices was a distinct and unique religious phenomenon within its ancient context. Additionally, Hurtado demonstrates that this remarkable development was not invented decades after the resurrection of Christ as some scholars once claimed. Instead, the New Testament suggests that Jesus--followers, very quickly after the resurrection of Christ, began to worship the Son alongside the Father. Honoring the Son offers a look into the worship habits of the earliest Christians to understand the place of Jesus in early Christian devotion.
At the Origins of Christian Worship
At the Origins of Christian Worship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook At the Origins of Christian Worship write by Larry W. Hurtado. This book was released on 2000-09-07. At the Origins of Christian Worship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "At the Origins of Christian Worship" can deepen readers' understanding of early Christian worship by setting it within the context of the Roman world in which it developed. Hurtado highlights the two central characteristics of earliest Christian worship: its exclusive rejection of the ancient-world gods and its inclusion of Christ with God as the focus of devotion.
Worship in the Early Church
Worship in the Early Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Worship in the Early Church write by Ralph P. Martin. This book was released on 1974. Worship in the Early Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Refers to New Testament teachings while delineating the nature of early Christian worship of God. Bibliogs.
